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We study the security of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) in the context of the supervisory control layer. Specifically, we propose a general model of a CPS attacker in the framework of discrete event systems and investigate the problem of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Romulo Meira-Goes , Eunsuk Kang , Raymond H. Kwong , Stephane Lafortune

This paper considers a constrained discrete-time linear system subject to actuation attacks. The attacks are modelled as false data injections to the system, such that the total input (control input plus injection) satisfies hard input…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-18 P. A. Trodden , J. M. Maestre , H. Ishii

Resilience to sensor and actuator attacks is a major concern in the supervisory control of discrete events in cyber-physical systems (CPS). In this work, we propose a new framework to design supervisors for CPS under attacks using…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Yu Wang , Alper Kamil Bozkurt , Nathan Smith , Miroslav Pajic

We address the problem of state estimation, attack isolation, and control of discrete-time linear time-invariant systems under (potentially unbounded) actuator and sensor false data injection attacks. Using a bank of unknown input…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Tianci Yang , Carlos Murguia , Margreta Kuijper , Dragan Nesic

One of the major challenges about cyber physical systems is how to prevent cyber attacks to ensure system integrity. There has been a large number of different types of attacks discussed in the modern control and computer science…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-26 Rong Su

We investigate the coordination and control problems of distributed discrete event systems that are composed of multiple subsystems subject to potential actuator and/or sensor faults. We model actuator faults as local controllability loss…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Jin Dai , Hai Lin

The technological advancements facilitating the rapid development of cyber-physical systems (CPS) also render such systems vulnerable to cyber attacks with devastating effects. Supervisory control is a commonly used control method to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Nathaniel Smith , Yu Wang

We consider a Markov decision process (MDP) in which actions prescribed by the controller are executed by a separate actuator, which may behave adversarially. At each time step, the controller selects and transmits an action to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Edoardo David Santi , Gongpu Chen , Deniz Gündüz , Asaf Cohen

In this work, we investigate the problem of privacy-preserving supervisory control against an external passive intruder via co-synthesis of dynamic mask, edit function, and supervisor for opacity enforcement and requirement satisfaction. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-03 Ruochen Tai , Liyong Lin , Yuting Zhu , Rong Su

In this paper, we investigate both qualitative and quantitative synthesis of optimal privacy-enforcing supervisors for partially-observed discrete-event systems. We consider a dynamic system whose information-flow is partially available to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Yifan Xie , Xiang Yin , Shaoyuan Li

This paper discusses the problem of estimating the state of a linear time-invariant system when some of its sensors and actuators are compromised by an adversarial agent. In the model considered in this paper, the malicious agent attacks an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh , Yasser Shoukry , Suhas Diggavi , Paulo Tabuada

This paper proposes an encrypted state observer that is capable of detecting sensor attacks without decryption. We first design a state observer that operates over a finite field of integers with the modular arithmetic. The observer…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Yeongjun Jang , Sangwon Lee , Junsoo Kim

This paper investigates the problem of synthesizing sensor deception attackers against privacy in the context of supervisory control of discrete-event systems (DES). We consider a DES plant controlled by a supervisor, which is subject to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Jingshi Yao , Xiang Yin , Shaoyuan Li

The deployment of control systems with network-connected components has made feedback control systems vulnerable to attacks over the network. This paper considers the problem of intrusion detection and mitigation in supervisory control…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Lilian Kawakami Carvalho , Yi-Chin Wu , Raymond Kwong , Stéphane Lafortune

Cyber-physical robotic systems are vulnerable to false data injection attacks (FDIAs), in which an adversary corrupts sensor signals while evading residual-based passive anomaly detectors such as the chi-squared test. Such stealthy attacks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Gabriele Gualandi , Alessandro V. Papadopoulos

In this paper, a heterogeneous leader-followers multiagent system is studied under simultaneous time-varying communication faults and actuator faults. First, the state of the leader is modelled as the closed-loop reference model where the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-01-25 Leyi Zheng , Yimin Zhou

Although adverse effects of attacks have been acknowledged in many cyber-physical systems, there is no system-theoretic comprehension of how a compromised agent can leverage communication capabilities to maximize the damage in distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Rohollah Moghadam , Hamidreza Modares

With the emergence of cyber-attacks on control systems it has become clear that improving the security of control systems is an important task in today's society. We investigate how an attacker that has access to the measurements…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-08 David Umsonst , Henrik Sandberg

In this work, we focus on analyzing vulnerability of nonlinear dynamical control systems to stealthy sensor attacks. We start by defining the notion of stealthy attacks in the most general form by leveraging Neyman-Pearson lemma;…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Amir Khazraei , Miroslav Pajic

In this work, we evaluate theoretical results on the feasibility of, the worst-case impact of, and defense mechanisms against a stealthy sensor attack in an experimental setup. We demonstrate that for a controller with stable dynamics the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-02 David Umsonst , Henrik Sandberg